Study hard, and avoid becoming a TSO?
Dec 13, 2014 | 8:36 am
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Study hard, and avoid becoming a TSO?
Came through TSA checkpoint at EWR, terminal B (Delta gates) this morning.
(Side question: why does this checkpoint have a PreCheck lane if it never seems to be open?)
While redressing after the "security screening," I was listening to a conversation between a TSO and a passenger whose bag had been "flagged" for additional screening. The TSO found a Texas Instruments calculator of some type, and commented about how he'd had one when he was in school.
He asked the pax if there were any games on the calculator; the pax did not know. The TSO then went on to talk about his school days -- how, when he was in math class and all the other students were hard at work studying, he was playing games on the calculator. He laughed loudly, thinking that had been a good joke on the other students, apparently.
And now, he's a TSO. Amazing. Wonder what became of the studious students?
(Side question: why does this checkpoint have a PreCheck lane if it never seems to be open?)
While redressing after the "security screening," I was listening to a conversation between a TSO and a passenger whose bag had been "flagged" for additional screening. The TSO found a Texas Instruments calculator of some type, and commented about how he'd had one when he was in school.
He asked the pax if there were any games on the calculator; the pax did not know. The TSO then went on to talk about his school days -- how, when he was in math class and all the other students were hard at work studying, he was playing games on the calculator. He laughed loudly, thinking that had been a good joke on the other students, apparently.
And now, he's a TSO. Amazing. Wonder what became of the studious students?
Dec 13, 2014 | 9:49 am
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And this is the one of the root causes of the problems with the TSA. Too many of their front line workers were slackers or out and out losers who enjoy using their tiny bit of granted authority to make life miserable for those who they see as successful.
Dec 13, 2014 | 10:39 am
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Probably best damn truth I have seen all day! Look at the police force that have been on the news of late. Common guys, just because you have a uniform shouldn't make you out to be a aXX.
Dec 13, 2014 | 10:53 am
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Came through TSA checkpoint at EWR, terminal B (Delta gates) this morning.
(Side question: why does this checkpoint have a PreCheck lane if it never seems to be open?)
While redressing after the "security screening," I was listening to a conversation between a TSO and a passenger whose bag had been "flagged" for additional screening. The TSO found a Texas Instruments calculator of some type, and commented about how he'd had one when he was in school.
He asked the pax if there were any games on the calculator; the pax did not know. The TSO then went on to talk about his school days -- how, when he was in math class and all the other students were hard at work studying, he was playing games on the calculator. He laughed loudly, thinking that had been a good joke on the other students, apparently.
And now, he's a TSO. Amazing. Wonder what became of the studious students?
(Side question: why does this checkpoint have a PreCheck lane if it never seems to be open?)
While redressing after the "security screening," I was listening to a conversation between a TSO and a passenger whose bag had been "flagged" for additional screening. The TSO found a Texas Instruments calculator of some type, and commented about how he'd had one when he was in school.
He asked the pax if there were any games on the calculator; the pax did not know. The TSO then went on to talk about his school days -- how, when he was in math class and all the other students were hard at work studying, he was playing games on the calculator. He laughed loudly, thinking that had been a good joke on the other students, apparently.
And now, he's a TSO. Amazing. Wonder what became of the studious students?
Dec 13, 2014 | 10:54 am
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Was there a security related reason to ask whether there were games on the calculator?
Dec 13, 2014 | 11:28 am
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Came through TSA checkpoint at EWR, terminal B (Delta gates) this morning.
(Side question: why does this checkpoint have a PreCheck lane if it never seems to be open?)
While redressing after the "security screening," I was listening to a conversation between a TSO and a passenger whose bag had been "flagged" for additional screening. The TSO found a Texas Instruments calculator of some type, and commented about how he'd had one when he was in school.
He asked the pax if there were any games on the calculator; the pax did not know. The TSO then went on to talk about his school days -- how, when he was in math class and all the other students were hard at work studying, he was playing games on the calculator. He laughed loudly, thinking that had been a good joke on the other students, apparently.
And now, he's a TSO. Amazing. Wonder what became of the studious students?
(Side question: why does this checkpoint have a PreCheck lane if it never seems to be open?)
While redressing after the "security screening," I was listening to a conversation between a TSO and a passenger whose bag had been "flagged" for additional screening. The TSO found a Texas Instruments calculator of some type, and commented about how he'd had one when he was in school.
He asked the pax if there were any games on the calculator; the pax did not know. The TSO then went on to talk about his school days -- how, when he was in math class and all the other students were hard at work studying, he was playing games on the calculator. He laughed loudly, thinking that had been a good joke on the other students, apparently.
And now, he's a TSO. Amazing. Wonder what became of the studious students?
I'll bet he volunteered to sit in the Voyeur Booth back in the Cancer Box days. I'll bet he knew how to store and transmit images.
Dec 13, 2014 | 12:27 pm
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Which is one of the many reasons why I don't engage in any "small talk" or "chit-chat" with which many TSOs try to engage me while I traverse their unconstitutional "security" zones.
Dec 13, 2014 | 12:29 pm
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